Skin Trade (2015)

Synopsis & Plot Summary of Skin Trade (2015):

Human trafficking is one of the profitable businesses in the current world for the extraordinary demand of the business type. Usually females are trafficked from different countries and sold or used as a product at the prostitutions. Skin Trade is the movie that deals with such an event of human trafficking where a tough police officer gets involved and consequently loses his family – wife and daughter for his involvement against the trafficking trade. Being enraged with the revenge by the Russian gang, the cop decides to uproot the trafficking network completely and thus he starts his journey to Bangkok- the hub of the network. There he meets with another local police officer and jointly destroys the trafficking network.

Hollywood Film – Skin Trade (2015) Movie Review & Storyline:

When a tough and honest police officer gets involved with some human traffickers, he is threatened in different ways. But the cop is determined to destroy the network. He kills the son of the leader in a sting operation that makes the traffickers to angry and they kill the wife and daughter of the police officer- Nick Cassidy. When there was an attack on the family of Nick Cassidy, he survived the attack for his reflex but could not save his family members.

After the family members were killed by the human traffickers, Nick turns more violent against the Russian mob and determines to destroy the entire network of the human traffickers. He traces the network leader and reached Bangkok. Bangkok is the center of human trafficking where the organization holds is base and operates its business globally.

In association with a local Thai detective, Nick starts his action of wiping out of the human traffickers. The combination of the New York and Thai police officers creates a sense of terror among the traffickers. Gun fight and unarmed combats between the parties start taking place in line with the storyline.

The movie belongs to action genre and thus there is no lack of the action elements on the movie. The casts ate chosen very carefully to get fitted on their roles. Since Skin Trade is a cross-country movie, made in association of Canada and Thailand, two of the prominent actions artists have been casted here to make the actions look natural.

Tony Jaa, the Thai superstar is highly skilled in Thai martial arts and also played the role of a modern warfare specialist on the movie. He was selected on the Thai detective’s role because of his skilled acting quality with special action moves. Screenplay for the movie is jointly composed by three writers – Steven Elder, Gabriel Dowrick, and Dolph Lundgren himself, and the script development for the film began in 2007, while it is directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham.